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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/abrants
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From *abr- + *-ants (body part suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs. Cognate with Latin frōns (“forhead”).[1]
Noun
*abrants m[1]
- eyelid
Declension
| Masculine/feminine consonant stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *abranss | *abrante | *abrantes |
| vocative | *abranss | *abrante | *abrantes |
| accusative | *abrantam | *abrante | *abrantams |
| genitive | *abrantos | *abrantou | *abrantom |
| dative | *abrantei | *abrantobom | *abrantobos |
| locative | *abranti | — | — |
| instrumental | *abrante? | *abrantobim | *abrantobis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *abrant
- Breton: abrant
- Cornish: abrans
- Middle Welsh: amrant
- Welsh: amrant
- Old Irish: abrae m
- Scottish Gaelic: abhra
- Irish: fabhra
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*brū-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80